Increasing MPG Tricks

[tr10av]

Well with the gas prices approaching $3 a gallon I started looking at ways to boost my MPG. I read about adding small amounts of acetone to gas and getting 10-20% increases and adding 2 mothballs to a tank. My friend just went to Montana and he said someone told him the mothball trick works too.

So does anyone have any info on these things working or any other tricks you've used?

[Juggalo]

go ahead and toss some mothballs in your tank and let us know how that works for ya lol.. doesn't sound like it would work but who knows!

[Shpyder]

Ethanol and toluene have known to help prevent knock and increase gas mileage also. That's all an off-the-shelf octane booster in made of. As for the mothballs, they are naphthalene (two benzene rings stuck together as a bicyclo system), and I'm sure their aromaticity directly affects mpg. I'll ask my prof.

[mtcs]

One thing people can do if they are really concerned with gas consumption is turn down their PSI. The lower it is the better your DSM will be on gas. Only problem with that is that it won't be fun to drive it anymore :< I guess it's either good MPG or speed... I'd just put in a few extra hours at work to keep my tank full instead of killing the fun that my DSM and I have...

[clipsekid99]

Originally Posted by Shpyder

Ethanol and toluene have known to help prevent knock and increase gas mileage also. That's all an off-the-shelf octane booster in made of. As for the mothballs, they are naphthalene (two benzene rings stuck together as a bicyclo system), and I'm sure their aromaticity directly affects mpg. I'll ask my prof.

Dang, Shyp is using his big words again lol. Freakin Bill Nye the Science Guy over here haha.

[EDMUND65]

havent seen bill nye the sience guy in so longg

[gthompson97]

Originally Posted by EDMUND65

havent seen bill nye the sience guy in so longg

That's cause he spends all his time on automotiveforums.com now under the alias of "Shpyder"

[crunchymilk55]

Originally Posted by Shpyder

Ethanol and toluene have known to help prevent knock and increase gas mileage also. That's all an off-the-shelf octane booster in made of. As for the mothballs, they are naphthalene (two benzene rings stuck together as a bicyclo system), and I'm sure their aromaticity directly affects mpg. I'll ask my prof.

I take it your in Organic chemistry as well???

[l_eclipse_l]

Upgrade your ignition like I did. I saw a boost in MPG around 2-3 city and like 5 mpg highway after I got the stronger coil, thicker wires, and iridium plugs. And just keeping your foot off the gas helps lol.

[Shpyder]

Originally Posted by crunchymilk55

I take it your in Organic chemistry as well???

Yes sir! Final upper div. O-Chem course. One more month before I take the American Cham Soc. exam. We also had to synthesize our own shiz independantly and have to give a damn seminar next week. I did flavone (-ortho-phenyl-benzopyrone something...finished the damn project and still didnt get the nomenclature right, lol!). But, I cant wait to NEVER see this course again. lol.

[crunchymilk55]

intersting, I'd have to say O.chem has been my favorite course in college yet. The lab, on the other hand, sucks ass. I was top in class of 150 for O. chem I, and if I do well on the final I could repeat for O. Chem II

[Thor06]

Holy hell Shpyder.

I doubt the toulene and moth balls will help by 10%-20%, but I dont think it will hurt. Go to www.dsmtuners.com, find the tech article library, go into the engine one, and near the bottom theres a how-to on mixing your own race gas. Just paint thinner (toulene), mineral spirits (they said to clean shit, like the fuel injectors), and tranny fluid as a lubricant. If I get time tonight I'll hunt it down.

[L-Spec]

I think this is what Thor06 was looking for:
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72656

[Shpyder]

Originally Posted by crunchymilk55

I was top in class of 150 for O. chem I

That's quite some achievement. O-Chem is one of the toughest science courses offered to undergrad science majors. It is designed as a weeder course to root out those "unfit" to proceed further down the line; I have doctors and biotech majors in my family...no matter how long ago they graduated, they all remember O-Chem as the ballbreaker course. Good luck with O-Chem II...there will be 10 times more reactions and so many reactions mechanisms, it'll make your head hurt. Infact, we don't get to "true" O-Chem until the 2nd half of O-Chem II: carbonyl reactions. Makes you wonder about all the struggle before...it was just a warm-up to the real thing

[ned032002]

ARGGGG...my head hurts justreading this thread.